He came ready to confess. She forgot he was gay—and everything else.
Kevin returns home with a birthday surprise for his mother, Lisa, only to discover her lost in the mundane act of cooking. But something is terribly wrong—Lisa’s irritability, her forgetfulness, her unrecognizable gaze. What starts as a simple celebration spirals into a chilling revelation of a son witnessing his mother’s mental decline. Flake is an emotional exploration of the fragile nature of memory and the profound bond between mother and son.
Acting
Bing Zhu's vacant stare haunts longer than the runtime
Direction
Ieong turns a kitchen into a horror of recognition
Writing
Nine minutes, two reveals, zero wasted breath
Director
Pierre Ieong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare mainstream short pairing Asian diaspora family dynamics with queer coming-of-age, refusing to let one identity overshadow the other.
The title 'Flake' cruelly mirrors both Lisa's mental fragmentation and Kevin's abandoned plan—his courage literally flakes away.
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